Acting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Acting	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Acting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
acting adj serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the acting president" n the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn: acting, playing, playacting, performing]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Acting \Act"ing\, a. 1. Operating in any way. 2. Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Act \Act\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Acted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Acting}.] [L. actus, p. p. of agere to drive, lead, do; but influenced by E. act, n.] 1. To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. --Pope. 2. To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. --Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. --Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. --Cowper. 3. To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage. 4. To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero. 5. To feign or counterfeit; to simulate. With acted fear the villain thus pursued. --Dryden. {To act a part}, to sustain the part of one of the characters in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble. {To act the part of}, to take the character of; to fulfill the duties of.